Arsenal still play attractive football.
I still don't understand why Coutinho is used sparingly and so is Samedo . Riberto is a liability at RB .
FinBarcelonafan
Well-known member
Our roster was just too weak this season to win the CL. Bad bench and too old Iniesta. It's not surprise we didn't win it.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
I have more posts to reply about height.
I have just clicked "mentions" on my profile to see who is trolling after Roma.
Anyway, about your post, I hope that you do know that an average height is higher and higher in each decade due to a different food and modern era.
Check here, for example:
https://ourworldindata.org/human-height
So, guys in 60s who were winning trophies, were born around 1940'.
An average height in France for guys born in 1940 was 171,7.
For example, if you were a 180cm in 60s, you were among tallest guys.
If you were 190cm then, you were a giant.
While, if you are 180cm today, you are average in Europe. Or, with 180cm, you are below average in Scandinavia, Netherlands, Southern-East part of Europe (Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia etc).
And 190cm is somewhat above average in Europe, but not as tall in 1960s.
So, Real's guys were quite taller than the average guys then.
By 1980, an average height raised to 176,5 cm in France.
And in the last couple of decades, it exploded way faster than before.
So, you can add freely 2-3 cms for years between 1980 and let's say 1990-1995.
That means that those Real's players would be 7-8 cm taller today, in a current era.
So, basically, these players which you mentioned actually had:
179
185
178
186
186
So, more or less, you proved my theory that you need to have at least average height and strength to dominate a CL.
So, thanks for proving my theory.
RM won 5 CLs in a row with players who were way above average height for that era.
I'll be honest I did not expect this lmao and I'm way too lazy to come up with a counter-argument or cross-check it for myself.
Shit.....
i remember Semedo playing great in the beginning of the season and especially that Juventus game. After that great game he decided to bench him and only god knows why because he is better then roberto at rb. Am getting pretty sick and tired of him playing roberto at rb. He is not a rb and he should not play there.
God Serena
New member
This guy just said Valverde developed Busquets. And Rakitic. CL medal winners who only developed under the manager who forces them to play on painkillers so he can chase an invincibles record.
Pack it up now, boys. You'll have to hop on Reddit to find gold better than this.
Barcilliant
Senior Member
In breaking news Jose Mourinho found his long lost twin....
Ousmane Dembélé
Banned
He has killed all the joy I used to get from watching this team.
If he's still the manager next season might as well take a break from football for a while, at least I'll know I won't be missing much.
If he's still the manager next season might as well take a break from football for a while, at least I'll know I won't be missing much.
snowy
Active member
Hopefully, this attitude doesn't go airborne and contaminate the creative players as well. Dembele is at his best when pushing the edge in a high risk/high tempo set-up, but if he knows he's going to get chastised if he loses the ball or fails at a risky but potentially brilliant pass, it's going to shackle his natural, instinctive style and he'll start making safer, backward passes leading to nothing.
If a talented CB like Mina is really not getting played because of that no-look pass, what type of message will it send to any future young Barca prospect, targeted by our scouting department. Even if they'd normally jump at the idea of playing here, they'll look at the coach, they'll think of the bench, and they'll likely say no.
It's even possible that Neymar got a hint of that with his alien-tech super-advanced Neymaradar detection system and decided to leave, anticipating Valverde might try to restrain his playing style hehe
or maybe it was the
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henias
New member
Will be taking a long break from football. Dont think he can achieve great things like some people assume, unbeaten means nothing and doesnt reflect him in many managerial aspects. Next season he wont be unbeaten for sure and will have a bigger squad to handle which he will crumble under pressure again.
serghei
Senior Member
This guy has zero ideas how to bring the ball forward when under pressure. That's how you see who's a good manager and who's not. Once a team is disciplined and has our players under marking and goes hard at us, Valverde doesn't know what to do. He's just not intelligent and smart enough to play Barca football under adverse conditions. Doesn't have the balls or the brains to do it.
That's because he doesn't have any idea what fluid football is and what its strenghts are exactly in these types of situations, where you have to develop several movement patters as to drop the markers, or make their job a lot harder. What is our movement pattern when we have every player marked? What do we do to find the free man, when Messi (or Neymar for that matter, boy he was missed a lot vs Roma) can't take the ball, dribble 1-2 players, and create the free man on his own? How do we generate a free man in these situations, as to have good progression on the ball and actively look to punish Roma for their extreme courage to have a go at us like that?
Valverde didn't have a single good answer to all of these questions proposed by the opponent. His genius plan? Try to hold on for dear life and lump long balls to Messi and Roberto. In what world is this a viable tactic, pouring long balls to 1.69 - 1.75m players against roughly 1.87m. defenders.
That's because he doesn't have any idea what fluid football is and what its strenghts are exactly in these types of situations, where you have to develop several movement patters as to drop the markers, or make their job a lot harder. What is our movement pattern when we have every player marked? What do we do to find the free man, when Messi (or Neymar for that matter, boy he was missed a lot vs Roma) can't take the ball, dribble 1-2 players, and create the free man on his own? How do we generate a free man in these situations, as to have good progression on the ball and actively look to punish Roma for their extreme courage to have a go at us like that?
Valverde didn't have a single good answer to all of these questions proposed by the opponent. His genius plan? Try to hold on for dear life and lump long balls to Messi and Roberto
. In what world is this a viable tactic, pouring long balls to 1.69 - 1.75m players against roughly 1.87m. defenders.
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